This isn't reddit. Everyone doesn't need to chime in on a subject.
If you're not a subject matter expert, I personally would prefer you not comment at all.
It's much more pleasant to read discussion from people that know what they're talking about rather than people offering their opinions because they think that other people want to read them.
This is primarily a technology site, so it's not surprising when you have popular articles in other subjects with few comments.
People can find something interesting without having the need to say something.
The intent is in the certificate. Superfish could create and sign any certificate, meaning it could impersonate websites. This certificate cannot sign other certificates, meaning it can't be used in the same way as superfish. Thus the logical intent seems to be bloatware, backdoors, etc.. not snooping on HTTPS connections.
This is the distinction the person you are replying to is trying to make, because although similar to superfish, it is not quite the same.
Once you get used to cmd+space. It's so much easier to hit the key combo, type the first letters of the program you want and hit enter than clicking through a bunch of folders and scrolling around.. but after reading this wikipedia article, I think I may have to find an alternative.
If you've worked on projects like this, I'm surprised you'd write such a comment to sabotage such efforts.
You're never going to solve the problem of verifying people's identity without some kind of elaborate system based on public information, or a new public national id number system, and even then you'd never be fully aware that the person is who they say they are.
The problem this solves is real.
I move a lot, and I've gone through exactly what is in the video more times than I remember, in fact, as soon as I saw the video, I sent it to several people because I thought it was such a good idea.
Your representatives don't have any way to know that any of the e-mails they receive or the submissions to their own personal web pages are strictly from their constituents.. so why do you think this is any different?
Or are you suggesting that members of the legislature will read zero e-mails and zero submissions to their website?
If you honestly believe that your legislators don't have the time to deal with the people they represent, then the problem is not a technical one, the problem is that you need more representatives.
I think he was referring to the technology, as in the hardware.
To do this stuff properly, you often need big expensive equipment, so the real question is what they are doing to achieve results using cheap hardware.
Your analogy still does not resolve why only one party in the trial gets to see the evidence in its entirety before it is destroyed.
Why would the defense (i.e. the owner of the data) not have the same opportunity as the prosecution to review their own material?
The only counter-argument that I can see is that Mega should continue paying their hosting bills for as long as the government wants to drag the trial on for. Which very well was a possible intent from the start. In which case, the entire thing seems like a government strong-arm, of which I am not in favor.
Let's say you are accused of robbing a convenience store. The police take the security footage, review it, and then erase it. According to everyone that saw the tape, you did it, and perhaps they even retain a few seconds of footage that shows something like a coat that you own.
Would you think it fair that one party gets to use evidence to convict you, that you yourself are not allowed to see, or use for your own defense?
If you're not a subject matter expert, I personally would prefer you not comment at all.
It's much more pleasant to read discussion from people that know what they're talking about rather than people offering their opinions because they think that other people want to read them.
This is primarily a technology site, so it's not surprising when you have popular articles in other subjects with few comments.
People can find something interesting without having the need to say something.